Chapter One
Phoenix's POV
First day at a new school, just what every senior in high school wants. I had spent my entire school career in private school. The fact that my parents wanted to send me to public school for the last year of school before college was ridiculous. But then again I could see why they wanted to transfer me. Tuition was going up so much they weren't going to be able to afford it.
So here I was, in the room that I shared with my twin sister, Blair, getting ready for school. I was so used to getting dressed in the same thing every day that it didn't matter what I was wearing so this was painful. I had nothing to wear that was remotely acceptable. I eventually decided on a pair of jeans and a tank top with some beat up sneakers. This was just going to have to do.
"You look like shit," Blair said to me when I came down the stairs.
"Well unlike you I haven't been going to public school my whole life," I said and grabbed a banana from the kitchen counter.
"Freak," she said, "I still don't understand why you wanted to go to a private school. So dumb."
"Maybe it was because I didn't want to have to deal with getting dressed with the intention of impressing people every day of my fucking life," I said.
She rolled her eyes at me and I grabbed my car keys and headed to school. One thing about me and my sister was even though we were twins we couldn't be more different. First of all we were fraternal twins, which I couldn't have been more happy about. I loved to read and be by myself whereas she wanted to be the center of attention all the time and it didn't help that she was dumb as a doornail. Her passion was theatre and mine was photography. The only thing we had in common was DNA and a last name.
I pulled into a parking space in the school parking lot and went inside the building to the office to get my schedule. I looked at it and realized that I was going to have to walk around the school a few times to get used to where everything was. Thank God I was here really early. I found my classrooms easily enough and then went to find my locker. Once I found that and put the few books I had in it I went back outside and sat down on a bench to read.
Twenty minutes later Blair walked past me with her group of theatre friends. They were girls that really didn't look like they belonged with my sister but those were her friends. Now, don't get me wrong, I enjoy watching a good play and I have an appreciation for the arts, it's just that my sister NEVER shutting up about show tunes and going to see plays was a little tiring. I looked at my watch and realized that I should probably get to my first period class before I was late. When I walked in I realized that Blair was in there and so were her friends. At least there were some familiar faces. The teacher took attendance and made me introduce myself to the class, which was incredibly embarrassing. Today was going to be interesting to say the least.